Audience reviews
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Giratinaswrath
I wanted to like this show. The topic is interesting, but usually poorly done and this was no exception. Almost all the characters behave unrealistically, despite the show trying to portray realistic emotions. Not in a unpredictable teenager kind of way, but in a no-one-would-ever-behave-like-that kind of way. When confronted by problems the cast comes off as easily brushing them aside, incredibly dumb, or malicious for no reason. The build up is very poor and a lot of the drama comes on too fast or seemingly without cause. Without spoilers I will say the ending was super forced and everything wraps up immediately. The complicated ideas the show brings up are done in a shallow way, maybe because there are too many. I cannot tell if these topics were fumbled or if morally deficient or quest…
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I'm on the lookout for anime that don't deserve their rating. This one isn't it.
My main issue is that none of the characters are relatable. Maybe I'm just too old for this kind of stuff, or maybe because I'm a man, but I could not connect or cheer for any of the characters here. They all have good moments, but just when it gets good, it feels like another one of our main cast steps on the foot of the character we're focused on. Heck, there are like 2 or 3 moments where the suspense is actually tangible, but then they drop a cliché interruption that just ruins the moment.
The first few episodes do actually have a good hook. It's something new that we don't see in generic high-school anime. But, for me, as the story progressed, I felt like I could not stand most of the main cast.
As contr…
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When we’re young, love and sex seem larger than life—it is the most embarrassing thing imaginable. Maidens of the Savage Season captures all those emotions in the most melodramatic way possible. It skips all of that pesky build-up, the characters are stereotyped, it’s oftentimes predictable, and so what? Who cares about all that crap when it’s so damn entertaining?
Melodrama is what Mari Okada is known for, Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo is no different. Anything she writes that isn’t edited heavily by a director will surely be overflowing with melodrama. She’s an ambitious writer, however, she stuffed far too many ideas into this show. Sex, love, jealousy, homosexuality, social commentary, pedophilia, netorare, the list goes on and on. As someone who loves analyzing themes and the aut…
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Upsetting. Relatable. Cringy. Enlightening. Reassuring.
I was asked to give a one-word review, which is a rather uncomfortable request for a rather annoying, loud-mouthed person like myself. I feel more than one word, and yet either one of the words above would have told the story of these women to me.
Sports and academics were my only thoughts in highschool. As a girl, I would witness other girls shy away from changing jerseys on the field, while I willingly played with guys and did not care about the difference in our bodies. I felt distant from my peers, who were dating and holding hands while I was enthralled with the rush of adrenaline on the field. But slowly, it crept up. The same confusion lost feelings and displacement that Sonezaki and the gang felt, soon reached me in my last…
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If you enjoy being stressed out and watching unrealistic situations with deplorable characters, then this show is for you.
To be fair, the actual design of the characters and the sound design around them is fantastic -- it's what initially dragged me in. This show is very pleasing on the eyes and ears. Also, the voice acting is outstanding! I was blown away with some of the performances of the voice actors and actresses in this show. They truly carried it. They are expressive and emotive, and the art brings their acting to life.
Also, the story itself had a lot of potential. It was a bit different from the typical drama/slice of life-type shows you see for high school anime. We learn about the trials and tribulations associated with budding youth. All the things we get wrong growing up a…
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This is an anime where you go a few weeks after finishing thinking, "wow that was mediocre".
Initially, the jokes were landing and felt a bit fresh having humour that wasn't superficial or degrading, but teen sex-curiosity talk that would be more familiar with a western audience.
That's pretty much it regarding what I enjoyed. The rest is just the same teen love story you see everywhere lol. The only difference is that people say 'sex' a way lot.
I would add that most of the characters are unlikeable and kinda cringe.
Though you may argue that its more realistic that these teens are kinda cringe, which I do agree but it's really not enjoyable or fun to watch at all.
If that's your thing though, go for it ;)
Art is pretty good but soundtrack is forgettable.
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Following the trend of almost every new anime,there are always going to be romance and isekai animes. More often than not, there are going to be a lot of just terrible adaptations and bland story lines mixed in with the good ones.
So, is this show a good shot at a romance? Not exactly. No.
The MC is pretty average, nothing to comment on her, just a typical shoujo girl in love. Then, the rest of the cast isn't actually that bad, with no signs of just boring one liner characters. Then, why did this show suffer? Well, the plot kind of just sucks. This anime, instead of having one romance, has multiple subromances. Nothing new here, but it's executed so poorly. That is, the other subromances. They're not really given a lot of time, and they all seem forced. Especially the fight over Izumi, it…
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This anime is fucked up in so many ways to the point where you actually enjoy it somehow:
Story:
It’s about girls who want to learn more about sex life and the way things go is just really a big miss but somewhat enjoyable at the same time
Art:
Really liked the art style and it was mostly on point Sound:
Okay i guess ?
Characters:
Fucked up that’s all i can say
Enjoyment:
Idk why but it was fun and heartbreaking at the same time
Overall:
If you’re looking for a heartwarming anime then the first 6 episodes are certainly is but after that it’s heartbreaking
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O Maidens is unfiltered Mari Okada from beginning to end. And that is precisely why this has been such a divisive series. You either hate it, or you love it (as I did). But to understand why that is the case, we have to take a look at how Mari Okada approaches melodrama, and how this anime is a perfect example of Okada’s best and worst qualities.
First, let’s start with the bad things. That would probably be... the dialogue? Look, Okada's dialogue is like listening to peoples thoughts. With that I mean that is like the characters that she writes always say exactly what's on their minds, but without the filter that allows a normal person to really know what is normal and what is not normal to say. This results in a lot of scenes where it feels like people are not talking like real people w…
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Huh. Another Okada Mari anime? Time to break out my bingo board and see how quickly I win.
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2 episodes. Literally 2 episodes in and I got bingo.
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS AND IS QUITE LONG
O Maiden's in your Savage season is a coming-of-age anime that got people hooked on it's more mature, grounded themes of sex and youth. While not the first anime to do so and certainly it won't be the last, Maiden's is an Okada Mari anime and oh boy do I have to emphasize that. This anime screams her writing. Whatever your enjoyment of this series will be depends almost entirely on whether you like her writing style and its quirks. Let's dig into the anime now to elaborate on wh…
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If you were thinking this was going to be this embarrassing sexual-education type series (like Tsurezure Children which beats this show in every aspect) with a lot of humour and relatable situations then you're dead wrong.
You're in for one dimensional characters, unnecessary, formulaic drama-conflict and worst of all: NO SEX-ED HUMOUR!
I'm not saying this should've been a hentai, that wasn't my expectation but when that charlatan Gigguk recommended this to me as an awkward shoujo about girls interested in sex, I thought it was going to be an awkward shoujo about girls interested in sex.
The characters are absolutely trash.
We have:
- love triangle foreign girl with this mysterious and deep personal philosophy /s
- nerdy perverted chikan girl
- fujoshi
- normal girl
and lest we forget
-…
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Adolescence is no uncommon stomping ground in the anime world.
The pairing of high school and romance isn't exactly particularly new and exciting either but fear not, Mari Okada has arrived to crank the drama into levels never before seen.
On a more serious note however, the themes presented in the earlier episodes of the show actually were engaging and interesting. Sex is a touchy subject, especially in the heat of your youth. Having a positive outlook toward sex encourages a more thorough understanding of it. Araburu handled this quite appropriately when the girls were beginning to express they had thought about physical contact and intimacy. At this point of the show, I was honestly impressed it didn't fall into the pitfalls that most drama pieces usually do.
But what's that over the…
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At the start of this series after finishing the first episode I will admit I found it dumb and cringy, but as I kept on watching it the series grew on me in a way I never thought it would. What to me seemed to be the start of a melodramatic series became something wholesome, relatable, hilarious, and down right awesome.
While watching this series each episode felt like a roller coaster. During one moment im laughing my ass off or cringing from how I felt like this before to then being in awe of what would happen next. I was felt with great joy while watching these girls try their best to understand their emotions and how to properly express them, which is something most people of all ages find difficult to do.
Now I feel like I have seen many different series and a great number of them…
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Mari Okada is an extremely controversial anime writer for reasons both obvious and inarguably deserved. The main complaint most everyone cites with her scripts are her characters being utterly non-relatable and overemotional. Often times their emotional reactions to certain events are outright far fetched, and moreover, they’re hyper-passionate about things no actual person would be so with. Screaming, crying, wailing, and flailing all their merry way, Okada’s characters always loose me and many other viewers because we cannot find ourselves within them at all, but while many of us feel the need to critique her writing, there was this one time I read something someone online said which really intrigued me. They thought Okada’s writing was actually just fine the way it was, and the only rea…
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This here is a doozy. An incredibly dense, emotional story that has several girls who are in a literary club, while at the same time coming to terms with their burgeoning puberty. All of this has the nice bow on top of Mari Okada's melodramatic writing style, which seems to be the space she is most comfortable in.
I liked this enough, but I in no way think it was Mari Okada's strongest outing or a very worthwhile show. Primarily because it is far too textual for my taste. This anime is just a string of girls falling in love while also trying to get laid. Sure there are other things that happen but 99 percent of the show and its ethos can be wrapped up in that. This is where I come to my limitations as a reviewer because if you relate to the specific dynamics between these characters and a…
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"It fit."
Have you heard about drama anime’s lord and savior Okada Mari? Here’s a blitz version of what matters: she’s an r/raisedbynarcissists hikikomori turned acclaimed scriptwriter who keeps adapting her own life into anime scripts. And this makes her works divisive, because her life was so rough and tumultuous that sheltered middle-class snowflakes who never lived through any hardships and have no real life experience find it “overblown” or “melodramatic”. The bottom line is, she writes some of the best human drama in the medium, and Savage Maidens is the best one of her works to date.
The series is a dramedy about five high-school girls whose literature club activities lead to the discovery that es-ee-ex is a thing, hilarity ensues. The comedic and dramatic parts of the story aren’…
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If there is ONE person to call out for this fine masterpiece of a work, it's gotta be Mari Okada. After her debut directorial flim that is Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms and SO MANY series compositions such as AnoHana, Hanasaku Iroha and Blast of Tempest (just to name a few), her debut manga series has not been well-hyped to a certain degree. Unbelievable, I know and understand that most of (if not everyone) is well aware of the usual shenanigans of Okada's works that always works wonders critically, in the face of absenteeism of something that doesn't click together. But on a basic level, that has been her shtick for the past 2 decades of scriptwriting supressingly-emotionalist anime that makes us learn and experience the hard way, only for us to sorely wail in tears (i.e. AnoHan…
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Adolescence is a rather turbulent period for most people with all its conflicting thoughts and emotions. Considered too old to be treated as a child, but not old enough to be seen as an adult. An odd transitory road that many have to go through and along the way hopefully figure out who they are as they come of age. And it is that coming of age that really fascinates people and what many try to capture in their fiction. It’s a mode of story telling the begs for change and begs for development because it is what the characters are going through. Maiden of the Savage Season is no different with its main focus being the sexual awakening of a group of young literature girls.
The story follows five girls who belong to the literature club that also serves as their own clique as they all are goo…
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If you take a teenage soap opera, add some sex jokes, and make an anime version out of it, the result would be something similar along the lines of Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. It goes without saying the show appears to be a clichéd romantic drama about teenagers growing up. The journey to growing up isn’t without obstacles and for the Literature Club, they learn that the hard way.
While the opening minutes of the first episode doesn’t seem too unusual, the second half of the premiere may change your mind. It’s not every day we get to see a guy getting caught masturbating in anime after all. But backtracking a bit, it also became clear the show wanted to make a story about characters growing up. The adolescence experience is a complex journey and for our main characters, they want to…
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In a season stacked with big Shonen shows, all with high production values and great advertising, alongside many sequels and the usual isekai spam, it is easy to overlook true gems.
Maidens in your savage seasons is one of those easily overlooked gems. At first glance this anime looks a lot one of those basic Ecchi shows that just focuses on lewd dialogue, sex jokes, and random sexual shots of girls and boys inadvertently walking in on each other undressed. However, this show differs in that it does all of this with exceptional dialogue and execution, it is the difference between some basic otaku pandering Ecchi show and highbrow erotic art.
The characters in this show all are young high schoolers who are sexually repressed, as they are youth, in what is a fairly sexually conservative s…
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